Oak Grove Cemetery

Built in 1798. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 19 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1885.

From the record

One of 389 National Register listings published here for Bristol County · listed in 2014 · category: Site · built in 1798.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. Parker St., New Bedford
When was it listed? April 2014
Category. site
When was it built? 1798
National Register reference number. 14000176 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1885 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 109 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Oak Grove Cemetery, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet covering Oak Grove Cemetery, surveyed 1885

Fires near this property

30 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Oak Grove Cemetery between 2015 and 2020, burning about 20 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Debris and open burning	8
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	2
Fireworks	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
22 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
9 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
23 August 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
22 August 2020	Fireworks	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
2 August 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
11 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
4 June 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
3 May 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Every fire recorded in Bristol County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Oak Grove Cemetery: 4 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Clearwater Stone Inc	Stone	Past Producer
Acushnet Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Blue Stone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Clearwater Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Dartmouth Town Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Medeiros Washed Sand & Stone Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pine Hill Sand and Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Bristol County

Maps showing this location

19 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1885 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:62500
1888 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Fairhaven quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1893 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1918 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:62500
1936 USGS New Bedford North quadrangle1:24000
1941 USGS New Bedford North quadrangle1:31680 - 3 printings
1942 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:125000 - 2 printings
1947 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
1948 USGS New Bedford North quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS New Bedford North quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS New Bedford North quadrangle1:25000
1979 USGS New Bedford North quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:100000

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Acushnet Heights Historic District	0.7 miles	1989
North Bedford Historic District	0.7 miles	1979
Sgt. William H. Carney House	0.7 miles	1975
Dawson Building	0.8 miles	1982
Union Baptist Church	0.8 miles	2008
Bradford Smith Building	0.8 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14000176 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Bristol County	All 389 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.